Adobe Walls
- A trading post on the Canadian
River in the Texas Panhandle where the famous battle between Indians and
buffalo hunters were fought in June, 1874. There were twenty-eight
white men and one white woman at Adobe Walls when some seven hundred Comanche,
Cheyenne, and Kiowa-Apache Indians attacked under Chief Quanah Parker.
The Indians wanted to destroy the whites because they were killing off
the buffalo. The small band of white men, with their powerful buffalo
guns, drove back the Indians. More than one hundred Indians and only
three white men were killed. Three days after the battle one of the
most remarkable shots in the history of the West was made by Billy Dixon,
a buffalo hunter. At a distance of 1,538 yards - only 185 yards less than
a mile - he shot and killed an Indian horseman on a bluff. Among
the defenders of Adobe Walls was Bat Masterson, later marshal of Dodge
City, Kansas.